With 200,000 fleeing Aleppo, fighting in Syria intensified in the 16-month long struggle opposing the rule of Bashar al-Assad. While fighting still grips Homs after a brutal siege, the conflict has moved north to finally include commercial hub Aleppo - largely spared until now - a city of over two million. Both the Syrian army and the rebel Free Syrian Army claim advances in the battle for Aleppo, which began in earnest over the weekend. More pockets of conflict rage in other locations within Syria as well. Gathered here are images made available in the last week from Syria, where independent news coverage has been limited and difficult. Some of the images are from third parties and transmitted without confirmation via international wire services as they were received. [32 photos total]

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A Syrian girl lies on top of luggage at a makeshift refugee camp inside Iraq after crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at Albu Kamal-Qaim, the main border post between the two countries, July 24, 2012.
(Saad Shalash/Reuters)
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A Syrian man carries badly wounded five-year-old Mohammed Amumrej after he was hurt during shelling by Syrian government forces in the center of Aleppo late on July 25, 2012. The boy later died.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages)
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Members of a Syrian refugee family walk through the Domiz refugee camp in the northern Iraqi of province Dohuk on July 25, 2012. The number of refugees that have fled to Iraq's Kurdistan region exceeds 11,000.
(Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)
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Women react at the graves of their sons, whom activists say were killed by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad, in a cemetery in Homs on July 27, 2012.
(Syrian opposition Shaam News Network/Reuters)
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Syrian Kurds stand in the street in Jinderes, near Aleppo, on July 22, 2012, as Kurdish activists on the Syria-Turkey border started taking control of towns in the area without encountering much resistance from the forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
(Bulent Kilic/AFP/GettyImages)
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A Free Syrian Army member walks past the body of what they say is a member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's shabiha militia in the Aleppo district of al-Sukkari on July 29, 2012.
(Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
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Syrian rebel fighters celebrate on top of a tank captured from government forces at a checkpoint in the village of Anadan, near Aleppo, on July 30 2012, after a 10-hour battle. The strategic checkpoint of Anadan secures the rebel fighters free movement between the northern city of Aleppo and Turkey.
(Iskandar Kat/AFP/GettyImages)
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